I want to let you know that I am now a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. I won’t be an employee of Scrum.org, but I am a trainer who is licensed to offer official Scrum.org courses, which lead to Scrum.org Scrum certifications.

What this means:

I am now one of only about 100 trainers in the U.S. who is certified to train on Scrum!

About 25 of those are Scrum.org trainers, and the other 75 are with that other Scrum organization. 🙂

I was personally trained, interviewed, and approved by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, as well as the current Scrum.org trainer community.

I will still continue Scrum Coaching as my main engagement, where I plan to spend 90+% of my time.

I plan to teach a few 2-day courses in 2013

I am available for public and private courses

As more details emerge, I will pass them along, but I will work very hard to keep the “sales talk” to a minimum in my blog posts. While we’re on the topic, I will be available for coaching and consulting again starting in January 2013. Of course, I am always available to talk about providing training courses. (See, that wasn’t so painful!)

I am very much looking forward to collaborating with the Scrum community in general, as well as with my fellow trainers, where I’m sure I will learn a lot.

As I said in my post yesterday, this also means that I will begin publishing blog posts regularly again. I have quite a few queued up that just needing polishing and publishing. I look forward to blogging to you soon!